FVWM: Re: trouble with xrsh

From: Pete Siemsen <siemsen_at_niwot.scd.ucar.EDU>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 11:48:52 -0700 (MST)

Oreos <james_at_park6.student.harvard.edu> wrote:

> This is a portion of my .fvwm2rc it calls xrsh which opens an xterm on
> a remote workstation with the display on my computer. for some reason
> it works from my prompt and it also works if i send it to FvwmTalk,
> but if i click on it in the menu, nothing happens.
>
> just regard the "scws35" part as one continuous line. am i doing
> something idiotic?
>
> AddToMenu Xterms ""
> + "scws35" Exec exec xrsh -l park6 -auth xauth -pass ENV scws35 xterm -ls -d
> park6.student.harvard.edu:0.0
>
> thanks
> james

I do exactly the same thing, and it usually works for me. Some things
to try:

1. put a "&" at the end of the above line
2. the man page says -pass takes a quote-delimited string, so quite it
3. Try a simple "rsh" to the remote host first, to make sure that part
   of the connection works.
4. "xterm" may not be enough. I've found that I have to specify the
   full path, like /usr/bin/X11/xterm. Of course, that path had to be
   correct on the remote host, not the local host.
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Received on Mon Jan 22 1996 - 12:49:03 GMT

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